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The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go. – Chris Pocock	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The ICBM-class ballistic missile launched this time could have a range of over 15,000 km when calculated based on the flight distance of this ICBM, it depends on the weight of the warhead, but in that case, the US mainland would be included in the range. – Yasukazu Hamada	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is from this area that Stone Age humans departed by boat to cross Island South Asia to reach the mainland of Papua and Australia( the first successful major maritime voyage), stone Age humans were Stone Age humans, and now we know( Stone Age humans) had advanced medical knowledge. – Maxime Aubert	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan has given Mainland China another chance to coerce Taiwan economically. – Chiao Chun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This time, Mainland China announced these economic sanctions against the backdrop of large-scale military drills, if you think of the military drills as the main protagonist, there must be other supporting roles. Hence the Commerce Ministry also enacted economic sanctions to support( China's) intimidation. – Chiao Chun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I didn't see the ban coming so far, we were caught off-guard, i can't do anything, it's some kind of political issue between Taiwan and Mainland China... we simply want to grow good fruits and sell them at a good price. – Li Meng-han	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What's important is that Hong Kong is stable and safe now, we need to respect each other, despite any differences, and also respect mainland China. – Martin Chan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we still had harsh restrictions like in the( Chinese) mainland even after vaccination, it would be very painful and there would be no point in getting the vaccines. – Jeff Huang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In today's world where many countries waste time dealing with The United States with submission and blind obedience, there's only our country on this planet that can shake the world by firing a missile with the The United States mainland in its range, there are more than 200 countries in the world, but only a few have hydrogen bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and hypersonic missiles. – The United	Found on CNN 2 years ago
To me, because I am from mainland China, perhaps my understanding of the Pillar of Shame is not as deep as the locals or students from Hong Kong and it is not that significant to me, for me, it’s like a landmark which provides an approach to understanding. For the University of Hong Kong, it should also be considered a landmark. – Wang Luyao	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It means that China will no longer tolerate Macao promoting in any form or manner gambling into the mainland. – Alvin Chau	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think mainland China and Taiwan have always co-existed peacefully. There are Taiwanese people in mainland China, and there are mainland people here in Taiwan. We are all Chinese people. – Vicky Tsai	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have been working tirelessly for the better part of 10 years to return Devils to the wild of mainland Australia with the hope that they would establish a sustainable population. Once they were back, it was entirely up to them, we had been watching them from afar until it was time to step in and confirm the birth of our first wild joeys. And what a moment it was ! – Aussie Ark	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With everything in the news on the mainland, I thought it might be something like that, but that doesn't happen in Hawaii very often. – Corey Funai	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
People were frightened by the scene, they were speculating about the purpose of the mainland boats and whether they would pose a security threat to the Matsu region. – Lin Chie-ming	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We learned about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, China, on December 30, not through that country’s official channels, as required under the international health regulations, but through media monitoring that we do, as well as through a notification from Taiwan’s Economic and Cultural office here in the United States, one of the very first ways the U.S. government was notified of a novel virus in mainland China, was by people from Taiwan. – Alex Azar	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As Beijing moves forward with passing the national security law, State Mike Pompeo will today end exports of US-origin defense equipment and will take steps toward imposing the same restrictions on State Mike Pompeo defense and dual-use technologies to Hong KongRights as it does for China, state Mike Pompeo is forced to take this action to protect State Mike Pompeo national security. We can no longer distinguish between the export of controlled items to Hong KongRights or to mainland China. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Although there are differences in the legal systems of Hong Kong and the mainland, the principles followed by the Hong Kong and mainland criminal laws are not that great, both laws include principles such as presumption of innocence, the right for criminal suspects and defendants to have legal defence, and laws not being applied restrospectively. All these principles can be stipulated in this legislation. – Deng Zhonghua	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We're worried that they are losing patience, and will find ways of tightening the screws, we know from our interactions with senior mainland judges that they just don't get Hong Kong at all. – Geoffrey Ma	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So in Hong Kong, Hong Kong experts and authorities might have a third wave of cases coming from the mainland after a second wave... The epidemic is still serious in the society. At this stage, it is still not optimistic. What worries me the most is inadequate testing on patients with mild symptoms, which prevents Hong Kong experts and authorities from cutting off the chain of transmission. – Hong Kong epidemiologist Yuen Kwok-yung	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The academics believe that there is no room for ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait, and suggests the government maintain its current policy position, strive to participate in the WHO and show goodwill to mainland Chinese suffering from the virus, additionally, minor incidents which could touch off a war across the Taiwan Strait should be avoided, that could become a pressure release point for the Chinese Communists to alleviate internal pressure. – Mainland Affairs Council	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A customer called and said,' Mainland China has this disease. We are not going to come out anymore,' no one in New Shanghai Deluxe restaurant has this disease. No one in New York Chinatown has this disease. – Owner Rose Wu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The continuing coronavirus infections in mainland China make it necessary to continue the travel restrictions on foreign nationals entering Australia for a further week to 29 February. – Prime Minister Scott Morrison	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
One risk is whether infections rise when people return to work on the mainland, as they are beginning to do though far from on a mass scale, the other risk is that the resumption of economic activity in the mainland takes longer than was, say, the case with SARS in 2003, because Beijing chooses to prioritize fighting the disease over GDP growth targets. – Christopher Wood	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

– Chris Pocock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ICBM-class ballistic missile launched this time could have a range of over 15,000 km when calculated based on the flight distance of this ICBM, it depends on the weight of the warhead, but in that case, the US mainland would be included in the range.

– Yasukazu Hamada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is from this area that Stone Age humans departed by boat to cross Island South Asia to reach the mainland of Papua and Australia( the first successful major maritime voyage), stone Age humans were Stone Age humans, and now we know( Stone Age humans) had advanced medical knowledge.

– Maxime Aubert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan has given Mainland China another chance to coerce Taiwan economically.

– Chiao Chun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This time, Mainland China announced these economic sanctions against the backdrop of large-scale military drills, if you think of the military drills as the main protagonist, there must be other supporting roles. Hence the Commerce Ministry also enacted economic sanctions to support( China's) intimidation.

– Chiao Chun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn't see the ban coming so far, we were caught off-guard, i can't do anything, it's some kind of political issue between Taiwan and Mainland China... we simply want to grow good fruits and sell them at a good price.

– Li Meng-han

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What's important is that Hong Kong is stable and safe now, we need to respect each other, despite any differences, and also respect mainland China.

– Martin Chan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we still had harsh restrictions like in the( Chinese) mainland even after vaccination, it would be very painful and there would be no point in getting the vaccines.

– Jeff Huang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In today's world where many countries waste time dealing with The United States with submission and blind obedience, there's only our country on this planet that can shake the world by firing a missile with the The United States mainland in its range, there are more than 200 countries in the world, but only a few have hydrogen bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and hypersonic missiles.

– The United

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To me, because I am from mainland China, perhaps my understanding of the Pillar of Shame is not as deep as the locals or students from Hong Kong and it is not that significant to me, for me, it’s like a landmark which provides an approach to understanding. For the University of Hong Kong, it should also be considered a landmark.

– Wang Luyao

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It means that China will no longer tolerate Macao promoting in any form or manner gambling into the mainland.

– Alvin Chau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think mainland China and Taiwan have always co-existed peacefully. There are Taiwanese people in mainland China, and there are mainland people here in Taiwan. We are all Chinese people.

– Vicky Tsai

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have been working tirelessly for the better part of 10 years to return Devils to the wild of mainland Australia with the hope that they would establish a sustainable population. Once they were back, it was entirely up to them, we had been watching them from afar until it was time to step in and confirm the birth of our first wild joeys. And what a moment it was !

– Aussie Ark

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With everything in the news on the mainland, I thought it might be something like that, but that doesn't happen in Hawaii very often.

– Corey Funai

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

People were frightened by the scene, they were speculating about the purpose of the mainland boats and whether they would pose a security threat to the Matsu region.

– Lin Chie-ming

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We learned about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, China, on December 30, not through that country’s official channels, as required under the international health regulations, but through media monitoring that we do, as well as through a notification from Taiwan’s Economic and Cultural office here in the United States, one of the very first ways the U.S. government was notified of a novel virus in mainland China, was by people from Taiwan.

– Alex Azar

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As Beijing moves forward with passing the national security law, State Mike Pompeo will today end exports of US-origin defense equipment and will take steps toward imposing the same restrictions on State Mike Pompeo defense and dual-use technologies to Hong KongRights as it does for China, state Mike Pompeo is forced to take this action to protect State Mike Pompeo national security. We can no longer distinguish between the export of controlled items to Hong KongRights or to mainland China.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Although there are differences in the legal systems of Hong Kong and the mainland, the principles followed by the Hong Kong and mainland criminal laws are not that great, both laws include principles such as presumption of innocence, the right for criminal suspects and defendants to have legal defence, and laws not being applied restrospectively. All these principles can be stipulated in this legislation.

– Deng Zhonghua

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're worried that they are losing patience, and will find ways of tightening the screws, we know from our interactions with senior mainland judges that they just don't get Hong Kong at all.

– Geoffrey Ma

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So in Hong Kong, Hong Kong experts and authorities might have a third wave of cases coming from the mainland after a second wave... The epidemic is still serious in the society. At this stage, it is still not optimistic. What worries me the most is inadequate testing on patients with mild symptoms, which prevents Hong Kong experts and authorities from cutting off the chain of transmission.

– Hong Kong epidemiologist Yuen Kwok-yung

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The academics believe that there is no room for ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait, and suggests the government maintain its current policy position, strive to participate in the WHO and show goodwill to mainland Chinese suffering from the virus, additionally, minor incidents which could touch off a war across the Taiwan Strait should be avoided, that could become a pressure release point for the Chinese Communists to alleviate internal pressure.

– Mainland Affairs Council

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A customer called and said,' Mainland China has this disease. We are not going to come out anymore,' no one in New Shanghai Deluxe restaurant has this disease. No one in New York Chinatown has this disease.

– Owner Rose Wu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The continuing coronavirus infections in mainland China make it necessary to continue the travel restrictions on foreign nationals entering Australia for a further week to 29 February.

– Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

One risk is whether infections rise when people return to work on the mainland, as they are beginning to do though far from on a mass scale, the other risk is that the resumption of economic activity in the mainland takes longer than was, say, the case with SARS in 2003, because Beijing chooses to prioritize fighting the disease over GDP growth targets.

– Christopher Wood

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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